The Music Bay to be a nasty surprise for IFPI’s 78th birthday

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The Pirate Bay has a new service brewing, and it’s one the music industry is going to hate.

TorrentFreak has been talking to an insider at The Pirate Bay about plans to use a new domain they have owned for several years. That name: themusicbay.org gives us a firm idea of what to expect, but no specific details are being released before the launch.

According to the insider:

The music industry can’t even imagine what we’re planning to roll out in the coming months. For years they’ve complained bitterly about piracy, but if they ever had a reason to be scared it is now. It will be a special surprise for IFPI’s 78th birthday, and we’re thinking of organizing a huge festival in Rome where IFPI was founded.

Visit themusicbar.org at the moment and you’ll get redirected to the main page of The Pirate Bay. However, if you visit fear.themusicbay.org, the page is blank, but the title says “comming soon[sic]”.

If the site and new service will go live for the IFPI’s birthday, then we can expect to see it appear in April.

This could turn out to be nothing more than scaremongering by The Pirate Bay to try and get the IFPI working to block something that doesn’t actually exist. Then again, this could turn out to be a rethink of file-sharing taking into account what happened to The Pirate Bay founders.

Are we about to see a new music-focused file-sharing network that works in such a way it is even more difficult to shutdown or find someone to prosecute over? What we do know is any such service would have to consider how the music industry try and use the law against them, and measures would be taken to stop that being a viable route.

The most recent service to take a different approach to making music available online is Mulve, and that bypassed P2P completely. Whatever The Music Bay turns out to be, expect something very different to The Pirate Bay.